How to configure SSL support in Office Solution Accelerator for Proposals (833022)

INTRODUCTION

This article describes how to configure Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) support in Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator for Proposals. SSL uses port 443. To configure SSL support in Office Solution Accelerator for Proposals, you must share the Office Solution Accelerator for Proposals Web services as subfolders of the Default Web site, exclude the folders from filtering in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, and then edit the Web.config file.

Note The procedures that are described in this article assume that Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 is already configured to use SSL. For more information about how to configure SSL in IIS, see the Server Administration Guide of the IIS 6.0 documentation. To view the IIS 6.0 documentation, visit the following Microsoft Web site: back to the top

Share Web services as subfolders of the Default Web site

To share Web services as subfolders of the Default Web site in IIS, follow these steps:

1. Start Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
2. Expand ServerName, expand Web Sites, and then expand Default Web Site.
3. Expand Proposals, right-click MSProposals, point to New, and then click Virtual Directory.
   
   The Virtual Directory Creation Wizard starts.
4. Click Next, and then follow the directions that appear on the remaining pages of the wizard to create the new virtual directory.
5. Quit Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
6. Start Microsoft Windows Explorer, right-click the folder on the hard disk that you specified as the content folder for the virtual directory that you created in step 4, and then click Properties.
7. Click the Web Sharing tab.
8. Click Share this Folder.
9. Make sure that the user account that the Web service uses has appropriate permissions to the content folder.
10. Click OK.

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Exclude folders from filtering in Windows SharePoint Services

To exclude folders from filtering in Windows SharePoint Services, follow these steps:

1. Start Microsoft SharePoint Central Administration.
2. On the Central Administration page, under Virtual Server Configuration, click Configure virtual server settings.
3. On the Virtual Server List page, click Default Web Site.
4. On the Virtual Server Settings page, under Virtual Server Management, click Define managed paths.
5. On the Define Managed Paths page, in the Add a New Path area, type the path that you want to exclude--for example, type MSProposals.
6. Under Type, click Excluded path, and then click OK.

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Edit the Web.config file

To edit the Web.config file so that Web service URLs are accessible, follow these steps:

1. Start Notepad, and then open the Web.config file that is located in the following folder, where Drive is the drive where IIS is installed:

   Drive:\Inetpub\Wwwroot

2. Locate the following line near the end of the Web.config file:

   <trust level="WSS_Minimal" originUrl="" />

3. Replace the line that you located in step 2 with the following line:

   <trust level="Full" originUrl="" />

4. Save the Web.config file, and then quit Notepad.
5. Restart the server, and then restart IIS and Windows SharePoint Services.

Note You may also have to start SQL Server Enterprise Manager, and then edit the #MSProposals_WebService row of the GlobalTransforms table in the MSCAS database to use the correct URL for Web services.